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Canadian Regulator Says No To New Internet Regs

Posted by timothy on from the leaving-well-enough-alone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After months of fears that the Canadian broadcast regulator would try to regulate the Internet, the CRTC has come to its senses. Its new media decision today takes a hands off approach — no new regulation — and even adopts a rule against undue preferences for wireless providers."

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  1. Now the US ISPs and Wireless Telcos will by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 2, Funny

    Blame Canada!

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  2. No regulation? by Mr.Fork · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a canuck, sure, the CRTC hands-off approach makes sense, but it still doesn't help address internet throttling by ISP which I think is shoddy. If I pay for a service, and wish to use a technology to download a game patch like Torrent, my ISP WILL throttle my internet connection.

    However, no regulation still means NO regulation which isn't a bad thing. And I do have the ability to switch service providers as a consumer and inquire about throttling before I move.

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    1. Re:No regulation? by brohmes · · Score: 2, Insightful

      it's just a shame that a consumer's only comparable alternative to Rogers' speed is to go that route. where's the competition?

  3. Re:ya know what i'm talk aboot eh? by harryandthehenderson · · Score: 4, Funny

    beavers

    Bald, hairy, or trimmed?

  4. Canada and Mexico should agree on regs by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think Canada and Mexico should agree on the new regulations and then force the US to comply with them under NAFTA.

    And restore copyright to the original 17 years with renewals until the literal person (not corporation) dies and no renewals after that.

    Canada has twice the bandwidth at half the price we suckers in the USA pay for.

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    1. Re:Canada and Mexico should agree on regs by jpedlow · · Score: 2, Interesting

      p>Canada has twice the bandwidth at half the price we suckers in the USA pay for.

      I've spotted a crazyperson!... The USA is the land of the $50 (or less, i mean, cogent's $4) megabit/sec. Up here, I pay $142/megabit, without any bandwidth factored In. I spend nearly 2 grand a month on a 10 meg line, with 250gigs of transfer. I'm trying to make a small DC up in BC, and it's brutal, there's no way we can even dream of competing with US prices, not because of the dollar factor, but just because you guys get data for so rediculously cheep. And then there's cellphones! You guys can get unlimited phone/data lines, for less than a hundred a month, we get 4 gigs of data and 200 minutes for $85 a month. No unlimited anything.

  5. Re:ya know what i'm talk aboot eh? by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's ridiculous. Where would the US get its newscasters, comedians, and singer/songwriters from if not for Canada?

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  6. Re:ya know what i'm talk aboot eh? by twidarkling · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nearest Donut place. You're obviously not Canadian. It's "doughnut." Also, it's "Tim Horton's" and fuck the rest of the places. And I will defend curling as a wonderful pass-time. Not quite sure if it actually qualifies as a sport...

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  7. Re:ya know what i'm talk aboot eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If only Timmies was as good as it was a few years ago when they actually made their products instore, rather than in factories and shipped frozen.

    Sigh.

  8. Re:ya know what i'm talk aboot eh? by Xentalion · · Score: 2, Informative

    You forgot studying to become America's heroes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiefer_Sutherland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner

  9. Re:ya know what i'm talk aboot eh? by Krokus · · Score: 2, Informative

    And I will defend curling as a wonderful pass-time.

    This is the second time I've seen someone use the non-word "passtime", so I'm going Spelling Nazi on your ass. "Passtime" or "pass-time" is not a word. The word you're looking for is "pastime."

    Before you mod me off-topic, please note I am just as off-topic as the parent and just as informative. :D

  10. Re:ya know what i'm talk aboot eh? by Yaztromo · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and learning how to best serve as America's hat.

    I guess you weren't given the memo concerning our new motto:

    Canada: We're on top, bitches!

    Yaz.

  11. Is this a good or a bad thing? by Arancaytar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't we *want* regulation in order to ensure net neutrality?

    Who are we rooting for right now?

  12. Re:ya know what i'm talk aboot eh? by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 2, Informative

    So you don't like the women's teams then ...

    By the way, people in BC and Alberta don't say aboot.

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  13. Re:ya know what i'm talk aboot eh? by grcumb · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I will defend curling as a wonderful pass-time.

    This is the second time I've seen someone use the non-word "passtime", so I'm going Spelling Nazi on your ass. "Passtime" or "pass-time" is not a word. The word you're looking for is "pastime."

    Past time someone passed time parsing 'pastime'.

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  14. Re:To bad... by schon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Those WIPO treaties were being pushed by the American media companies to normalize with the more stringent copyright laws that were passed in the EU.

    What colour is the sky in your world?

    Name ONE country besides the US that had DMCA-like copyright provisions before 1999. Just *ONE*.